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About 21 of Australians aged 20-29 are using cannabis. Studies have shown that regular cannabis use can be detrimental to our health. Professor Jan Copeland, Director and Founder of the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre at the University of New South Wales, has just ...

Medical experts say they are struggling to treat overdoses from the evolving synthetic cannabis drug trade after two suspected overdose deaths in north Queensland. Police are warning against the use of synthetic cannabis after two men died in Mackay in the past two days. The two men didn't know ...

Advocates of medicinal marijuana have welcomed a move to trial the drug in New South Wales for use on the chronically ill and sufferers of epilepsy. The New South Wales Government will spend up to $9 million on at least three trials of cannabis-derived medicines. ...

The reggae legend Bob Marley is set to become the face of a global marijuana brand. The late Jamaican musician's family has joined with a US private equity firm to launch the business, called Marley Natural. It's planning to start mass producing the drug in markets where it's legal next year. ...

In the United States, a sidenote from the mid-term elections was the groundswell of support for the legalisation of cannabis. Voters in the nation's capital as well as the states of Oregon and Alaska overwhelmingly voted in favour of making recreational use of the drug legal. Advocates for drug ...